steering wheel off

[Anonymous]

how do i get it off without a PULLEY

[Anonymous]

bash it with the palms of ur hands

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[Anonymous]

bash it which way towards me or away from me. obviously i am sat in the seat not the bonnet

[Anonymous]

i'd advise against that, you'll probably end up colapsing the steering column. mine wouln't come of WITH a puller so i took out the whole steering column (5 min job) clamped it in to a workbench and tapped the nut twice with a hammer and it popped straight off.

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[Anonymous]

I had major trouble taking mine off. Try pulling like hell whilst a mate wacks the bold with a punch and hammer. This wouldn't work with mine so I took it to a local garage who ending up snapping the wheel in half trying to get it off with their puller!!
They only charged me a fiver, I think the steering wheel broke whilst about 3 off were pulling it like f**k!!!!!!!!

Miles

[Anonymous]

Mine flew off after 35 MINS of sever beating!
A steering wheel puller aint compulsory but saves a hell of a lot of time. Once you have the horn cover off etc, bash the circumference of the steering wheel all around with a hammer. Then just give short sharp bursts of pulling the wheel with the claw of the hammer, then another rout of smacking it round the circumference.

Be careful it doesnt smack u in the face, mine flew and hit the back windscreen when it popped off so be warned!


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[Anonymous]

yeah like grant says be careful coz if its really stuck on hard, when it comes off it will fly off at high speed.

Removing a steering wheel is somewhat like making a woman cum, what works on one car / woman will not neccesarily work on the next. Each requires differnt techniwques to get the desired outcome.

A combination of all of the above suggestions should do the trick.

[Anonymous]

lmao @ mr lover lover!

[Anonymous]

I agree with these boyz, mine was a f*cking nightmare to get off! Sprayed the bolt with some WD40, then had two people pulling the wheel and 1 bashing the bolt with a hammer. Just be patient it will come off in the end!

[Anonymous]

DONT GET SMACKED IN THE FACE

Undo the bolt and then tighten it back on again, just a few turns... that way the wheel hits the bolt, not your face.

[Anonymous]

otherwise you'll end up looking like ian dowie

[Anonymous]

watched my mate take his steering wheel of his gte. he forgot about the spring behind the wheel and it pinged him square between the eyes . It was one of the funniest things id seen in a while

[Anonymous]

LMAO @ Damian

Vauxhall Nova - Defined in Spain
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Grant@TranceAddict.Net

[Anonymous]

i think it must be something to do with the angle of which you hit the wheel.

as dale says undo the nut and unscrew it to the end of the bolt without taking it fully off for safety

i gave mine a few hefty whacks with a wooden mallet, stood outside the car, hitting behind the wheel with the mallet at a sort of 45 degree backwards/up action and it took 3 whacks and it was off

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[Anonymous]

The PROPER puller that's made solely for the job of removing Vaux/Opel wheels will remove any wheel dead easily.

Normal pullers, like the three-legged ones used to remove bearings etc WILL NOT WORK properly hence you fook up the wheel.

For the sake of ?8.60, buy the proper puller.

First Nova wheel I removed was in my 83 A-reg and it'd probably never been off before. It took three of us pulling, tugging and hammering (sounds dodgy lol) to get it off. When I removed the wheel my Antibes, I got the proper puller which was ?8.60 and the wheel was off in 20 seconds once it was in position.
I later used this on my mates 1984 B-reg and the same thing...straight off no probs.

Another trick though it to use a pneumatic hammer on the top of the column......my mate Andy did that on one he was scrapping to get the wheel off to let me get the digi-dash out of it.
The thing is though, the car was being scrapped so he didn't care if he damaged the column or not!

[Anonymous]

i have had blood pissing out of my nose taking wheels off b4

rember to grease the splines a little when refitting

i used to sit the seat close and use my knees to push the botom outwards while i yanked on the top with my hands

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[Anonymous]

I tried a three legged puller which wouldn't work, tried just pulling it, which also failed. In the end i used a exstention bar as a drift on the back/centre of the wheel from underneath and a large hammer! came off in two smacks! Killed the horn plate thingy though.

[eddiecorke2]

does anyone know if a cavalier boss kit will fit a mk2 nova??

[Iain]

does anyone know if a cavalier boss kit will fit a mk2 nova??

Start a new thread :p

[eddiecorke2]

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[Stuart]

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